(She dealt her) words like blades -Emily Dickinson.
Words … like bits of cold wind -Mary Hedin.
The words hung like smoke in the air -Doris Grumbach.
Words gush like toothpaste -Margaret Atwood.
Words gushing and tumbling as if a hose had been turned on -Rose Tremain.
Words, frothy and toneless like a chain of bursting bubbles -L.
Words falling softly as rose petals -Mary Hedin.
Words … danced in my mind like wild ponies that moved only to my command -Hortense Calisher.
The words crumbled in his mouth like ashes -William Diehl.
Words came out … tumbling like a litter of puppies from a kennel -F.
Words as meaningless and wonderful as wind chimes -Sharon Sheehe Stark.
This simile was first used by Talmudic rabbis
A word once spoken, like an arrow shot, can never be retracted -Anon.
The word hissed like steam escaping from an overloaded pressure system -Ross Macdonald.
They flung them like weapons, handled them like jewels, tossed them on air with reckless abandon as though they scattered confetti -Mary Hedin.
Stiff as frozen rope words poke out -Marge Piercy.
The sentence rang over and over again in his mind like a dirge -Margaret Millar.
The rest rolled out like string from a hidden ball of twine -Lynne Sharon Schwartz.
An old sentence … ran through her mind like a frightened mouse in a maze -Babs H.
My words slipped from me like broken weapons -Edith Wharton.
Like blood from a cut vein, words flowed -James Morrow.
It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken -Menander.
His words were smoother than oil (and yet be they swords) - The Book of Common Prayer.
Her words fell like rain on a waterproof umbrella they made a noise, but they could not reach the head which they seemed destined to deluge -Frances Trollope.
Every word hanging like the sack of cement on a murdered body at the bottom of the river -Diane Wakoski.
(She spoke to them slowly,) dropping the words like ping pong balls -Helen Hudson.
Her words at first seemed fitful like the talking of the trees -Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
The word seemed to linger in the air, to throb in the air like the note of a violin -Katherine Mansfield.
Words, like fashions, disappear and recur throughout English history -Virginia Graham.
Words, like clothes, get old-fashioned, or mean and ridiculous, when they have been for some time laid aside -William Hazlitt.
Words, like fine flowers, have their color too -Ernest Rhys.
Words, like men, grow an individuality their character changes with years and with use -Anon.
It is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn -Robert Southey.
Her words still hung in the air between us like a whisp of tobacco smoke -Evelyn Waugh.
Words, like Nature, half reveal and half conceal the Soul within -Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Words should be scattered like seed no matter how small the seed may be, if it has once found favorable ground, it unfolds its strength -Seneca.
Applying words like bandages -William Mcllvanney.
See Also: SPEAKING WORDS, DEFINED WORDS, EFFECT OF WORDS OF PRAISE WRITERS/WRITING
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